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• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, Solitude, May

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• To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Fighting, Shrines, Youth

  George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

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• Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Mean, Way

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

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• If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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• But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.

  William James

  Prayer, Essence, Soul

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.151, Xist Publishing

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• There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.

  Gennadiy Aygi

  Sleep, Depth

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• In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

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• We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Distance, Blow

  Paul David Tripp (2013). “Dangerous Calling”, p.200, SPCK

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• Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Mind, Lovers

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• The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Views, Sky, Earth

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.

  Francois Fenelon

  Jesus, Heart, Light

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Church, Compromise, Hours

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.493, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Democracy, Saint, Roles

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.94, Basic Books

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• Then the highest state of love is prayerfulness. In prayerfulness there is communion. In sex there is the I/it relationship, in love the I/thou relationship. Martin Buber stops there; his Judaic tradition won't allow him to go further. But one step more has to be taken that is neither 'I' nor 'thou' - a relationship where I and thou disappear, a relationship where two persons no longer function as two but function as one. A tremendous unity, a harmony, a deep accord - two bodies but one soul. That is the highest quality of love. I call it prayerfulness.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Sex, Taken

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• In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are just deceiving ourselves. The two will remain two. Howsoever near, the two will remain two. Even in sexual communion they will be two. This two-ness, this duality will never last. So a relationship is only creating a fallacious oneness. It is not there. Oneness can never exist between two selves. Oneness can only exist between two no-selves.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Self, Two

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• Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

  Eddie Myers

  Wisdom, Peace, Mind

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• It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Compassion, Our World

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• Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

  Peter Akinola

  Broken, Illusion, Break

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Book

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.

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• I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Archer, Thinking, Arrows

  "Best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'

  Pope Francis

  Men, Names, Differences

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• To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

  George Sand

  Together, Meals, Satisfaction

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

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• In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far from my own country, but in deep communion with all Haitians, including Haitians abroad, I continue to launch an appeal for peaceful resistance.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Country, Order, Political

  "Aristide appeals for peace in Haiti" by Jeff Koinange, Lucia Newman and Barbara Starr, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2004.

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• Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Mind, Quality

  "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1997.

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